07/09/2013
Tattoo Brighton. I have so much
respect for people whose vanity
is such that they would indelibly
mark their skin just to look good.
I like to look good. I like fashion. I
see tattooing as the ultimate
fashion statement. It is the
ultimate artform. Your body is a
canvas. Tattooists are artists and
their tattoo parlours are art
studios. Because I am a bit picky
about this stuff I am only using
quality images of quality work,
the photos have to be as good as
the tattoos that they depict . I
started this blog on a whim but
have become more and more
impressed by the art of tattooing.
It makes beautiful people more
beautiful. Sites such as Su***de
Girls have really tapped into a
rich vein Please feel free to
submit images to me for inclusion
on this site. Tattoo parlors, shops
and studios in Brighton. Magnum
Opus: a great work, and why not
if you have to live with it for ever
it should be a Magnum Opus
Tattoo. Punktured: wholly holy
holes. Inka: not to be confused
with Ink-D. Nine: cats lives and
marks out of ten. Skin Candy:
sweet as. Blue Dragon: lays
golden eggs. Pe*******on: enough
said I think. The Wizard of Ink:
magic potions, dark arts. Wildcat
Collection: old school p***y
parlor. Into You: let's go there
with the pe*******on theme or if
it's your first time then Punktured
first. Angelic Hell: angels and
demons it's a good/bad
dichotomy. Temple Tattoo: come
and worship at my altar, sacrifice
your blood upon my stones. City
Tattoo: so very urbane, s*x and
the city, s*x in the city s*xy
cities. Reality Tattoo: and why
not? It's not all make believe now
is it? Which leaves the Brighton
Tattoo Convention: the uber cool
super-duper gathering of like
minded minds in the City by the
Sea. It's like a zoo or maybe a
safari park because you can
mingle with the exhibits. Be
careful that the monkeys don't
pull off your windscreen wipers.
The is a transient art gallery
exhibition with human canvases.
See you there.... or be square, or
be square and be there if that is
your bag. A Short History of
Tattooing The firs recorded
tattoos were found on the
fossilised skin of early cave
dwellers dated from around
50,000 years ago. It is believed
that they used the ribs of small
animals (squirrels) dipped into
pigment as their "Tattoo Guns".
The most popular designs - from
the few samples recovered -
appear to be skulls and roses on
the lower back. X Pole I've got a
new hobby and maybe I'll get
quite good, but for now I'm just
practicing. It's a pole and
everything else is probably self
explanatory. Dancing poles are
the future..... Especially the X-
Pole Sport sold by those lovely
folk here . I think the tattoo X-
Pole link is all about showing off -
and that is the best connection I
can come up with between pole
dancing and tattoos! Next onto
the tattooing scene were
Babylonian fishermen. They
thought that tattoos would ward
off bad spirits and attract fish into
their nets. The method they used
was closer to branding because a
hot blade was dipped in ink
before carving into the epidermis.
One of the most popular
Babylonian designs was an
armband just above the biceps
depicting a chain of elephants
although some sub-tribes
preferred a barbed wire effect.
And I haveejust been offered a
challenge which I've called the
Nitrous Oxide Challenge!
